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Ussher arrived at the date of 4004 B.C. by taking known dates in history, and calculating backward by using the chronologies of Genesis Chapters 5 and 11 and working backward. The calculations themselves were so complicated that, in the original documents, they covered more than 100 pages....Given the 12-year gap, we are somewhere between four years before and eight years into Hosea's Third Day.

"He lost me here. How did he get these dates?"

Hal Lindsey's earlier books are all based upon the dispensationalist assumption that the Tribulation and Armageddon would occur within a biblical generation (40 years, per Lindsey) of the reestablishment of Israel in 1948. While I'm not aware of Lindsey acually putting it to print, if you do the math you arrive at the conclusion that the Second Coming must occur by 1988. Lots of other people did do that math, and if you don't believe me, check out the massive wave of "end times" literature that was published in the 80s, and the dearth of it after 1989.

So however Lindsey's getting his current dates, I'm sure it's the same method that led him to believe that the world was headed for Argageddon back in the 80s....namely, via newspaper exegesis and dispensensationalism....

"So however Lindsey's getting his current dates, I'm sure it's the same method that led him to believe that the world was headed for Argageddon back in the 80s....namely, via newspaper exegesis and dispensensationalism...."

He did pretty well for himself with all that, didn't he? Maybe the money has run out and he's going to come out with a new book to make some more.

Me...I'm waiting for the space ship to come by again. My prediction is that it will occur on February 13, 2023.

People get ready...the spaceship's comin'....
Don't need no baggage, you just get on board...

You're right. Edgar C. Whisenant released "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Is in 1988." Some have since revised the theory to say that the 40 years was meant to be after the capture of Jerusalem, placing the Rapture in 2007. This isn't widely stated, however, probably for fear that they'll be wrong again.